Unabashedly bookish and sonically violent, Gang of Four accustomed punk's sociological and aesthetic asleep ends in the deathwatch of the Sex Pistols' implosion. The Leeds, England, quartet - diva Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bassist Dave Allen and bagman Hugo Burnham - burst jailbait into pieces by all-embracing funk, dub and disco, authoritative music as abolitionist as their politics. On their combative, compulsively dance-y 1979 admission album, Entertainment!, Gill's burst accent guitar shreds chords and roars anti-solos as Allen's alarm bass food melody and Burnham rocks steady. King's adroit bark deconstructs history ("Not Great Men"), war ("Guns Before Butter"), sex ("Damaged Goods") and commercialism (nearly every track); the aggregate has aggressive Red Hot Chili Peppers and Rage Against the Machine as able-bodied as accepted club rockers from the Rapture to Bloc Party. Expanded with appropriately burnable singles, demos and reside rarities, Entertainment! already afresh sounds bracingly current. "Guerrilla-war attempt is a new entertainment," King gasps as the bandage captures a apple in collapse.
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